Steering Committee

Christopher D. Berk

Assistant Professor

Politics of punishment, Penal law, Law & society, Democratic theory

Joan C. Bristol

Associate Professor

Latin America, African Diaspora, history of commodities

Wesley Buckwalter

Associate Professor

Moral psychology, cognitive science, and epistemology

Alison Landsberg

Inaugural Director (2020-2024)

Professor

the politics of memory, affective engagements with the past, political subjectivity, visual culture, the Frankfurt School, race in mass culture, politics of aesthetics

Rachel A. Lewis

Professor

feminist and queer theory; ecofeminism and animal rights; human rights; race and immigration; transnational sexualities; media and cultural studies; disability studies

Anne Osterman

Dean of Libraries and University Librarian

Rashmi Sadana

Professor

Urban space, gender, and social mobility; infrastructure, design, and the built environment; language politics and ideologies; cultural identity formation; ethnography of literature; postcolonial theory, globalization, India

Vanessa Meikle Schulman

Professor

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century visual culture of the United States; periodical studies; history of technology

Ricardo F Vivancos-Pérez

Associate Professor

Latina/o/x Studies, Chicana/o/x Studies, Latin American Studies, Iberian Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Migration Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, LGTBQIA+ Studies, Comparative Literary Studies, Panhispanic Cultural Studies, Translation Studies, Editing & Publishing

Stefan Wheelock

Associate Professor

late eighteenth century/early nineteenth century black antislavery writing with a particular emphasis on slave narrative autobiography, early black polemic, and their contributions to Atlantic political and intellectual currencies